South Korea’s SK Telecom to help China in developing wireless networks

SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest mobile phone operator, will help China develop its own standard for wireless networks. SK Telecom will test the time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) technology in South Korea by the second half of 2007. China plans to start the 3G service before the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Its TD-SCDMA competes with wideband CDMA and Qualcomm’s CDMA2000 as 3G standards.